Center & Clark Core Program, 2007-2008
Spaces of Self in Early Modern Culture
Directed by
Directed by David Sabean, and Malina Stefanovska
Subjectivity is embedded in space, which serves to define, shape, and represent it. Every culture has its own articulation between natural and social places or between material and representational ones, as well as its way of constructing identity and selfhood in relation to space. In the early modern period, sites as diverse as the court, the cabinet of curiosities, or the prayer room were crucial for forming and representing individual identities. This year-long series of conferences, dedicated to five such key places, will explore constructions of selfhood and identity, while reflecting on the cultural differences and historical evolution of space, both as material foundation and as representation of human relationships, hierarchies and values.
Part 1. Circles of Sociability (October 26-27, 2007), be they represented in treatises of court civility, literary quarrels, or epistolary exchanges, or constructed in coffee houses, bourgeois salons and spas, all connect individual identity to practices of hierarchy, exchange, bonding, or conflict.
Part 2: Sites of Exteriority (November 30–December 1, 2007) such as gardens, mountains, landscape painting, travels or maps participate in the construction of the self by articulating its relationship to otherness (the sublime, the infinite, imaginary or exotic lands, cosmological representations), as well as a novel way of situating oneself in the world (personal perspective, point of view, exploration, limits).
Part 3: The “Inner Self” (February 22-23, 2008), will question how this specifically early modern notion is crafted through the use of spatial metaphors for representing subjectivity and its relation to otherness (interiority, meditation, concealment, truth or lying), for discussing the mind, the soul, or rhetorical memory, in fiction, medical or religious writings, and philosophy.
Part 4: Spaces of Sacrality (March 14-15, 2008) will explore the interrelatedness between the spatial configurations of religious sites (places of cult, convents, pilgrimage routes, sacralized Absolutist or Republican political space) and conceptions of authority, the sacred and the self (mystical experience, meditation practices, creation of a “secular” sacredness).
Part 5: Family and Work Space (April 25-26, 2008) will seek to understand the influence on individual identities, of new family and kinship structures, or of emerging work and leisure practices represented in the configuration of the house (reading spaces, craftsman’s workshop, artist’s studio, cabinets of curiosities, material objects of culture, relation of space to memory and work, practices of hospitality, etc.).
Academic and Public Programs,
2007-2008
Unless otherwise noted, all programs will be held at the
Clark Library, 2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district of
Los Angeles.
Limited seating at the Clark makes advance registration necessary for
all programs.
Inquiries should be addressed to the Center
office at 310 Royce Hall, UCLA
October 14, 2007
The Inaugural William Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde
and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Re-opening Reception
Oscar Wilde: Putting Music Into Words — Merlin Holland
Oscar Wilde and music? Not an obvious connection at all for an author who is best known as a writer of society comedies, his fin de siècle novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and for the homosexual scandal which shook Victorian London to its foundations in 1895. However, his writings are scattered with musical references, for music to Oscar Wilde was above all a mood and a metaphor and closely reflects the course of his life and with it his literary creativity. From his early writings, where it represents life-enhancement, joy and spiritual as opposed to sensual pleasure, it later becomes the strident and vulgar song of the music-hall, the cancan of the Moulin Rouge, before being transposed into the melancholy, minor key of his disgrace and poverty-stricken years in exile.
But Wilde did not just borrow from an art which was not his own; his Irish heritage and classical education provided him with the finest possible apprenticeship to becoming, as he regarded himself, a musician in his own right – a musician of words; the effects on his style and even the consequences for posterity, as Merlin Holland shows in this lecture, were sometimes remarkable.
Merlin Holland, the only grandson of Oscar Wilde, has devoted extensive research and study to his grandfather’s life. He is the co-editor, along with Rupert Hart-Davis, of The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (2000). He is also the author of The Wilde Album: Public and Private Images of Oscar Wilde (1998), as well as Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters (2006), and the just released Coffee with Oscar Wilde.
The Clark Library's collection of materials by and relating to Oscar Wilde is the most comprehensive in the world. Based on Clark's early purchases from Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland, bibliographer Christopher Millard, and executor Robert Ross, the holdings include a remarkable group of autograph letters and drafts by Wilde and his circle, supported by a nearly complete collection of printed editions of his works. Photographs, original portraits, caricatures, playbills, and news cuttings provide a depth of holdings which cannot be found elsewhere. Most of the important Wilde studies in recent years have drawn heavily upon the Clark's resources. Other books and documents relate to Wilde or to the decadent and modernist movements of the 1890s.
This special lecture also marks the re-opening of the Clark Library. Closed to readers for two years to accommodate a large-scale upgrade to the library’s heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems, we are pleased to celebrate our re-opening with this, the inaugural William Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde. Mr. Holland’s lecture will be followed by a champagne reception.
This biennial lecture on Oscar Wilde and his time is made possible by a generous endowment founded by Mr. William Zachs.
Admission is complimentary, but limited space at the Clark makes advance registration necessary. Registration will close when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity. Please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes early to guarantee seating.
To register, please call the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies at 310-206-8552 no later than Monday, October 1.
October 19-20, 2007
Circulation and Locality in Early Modern Science
A conference at the Clark Library organized by Mary Terrall, UCLA and Kapil Raj, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
This conference will examine the many ways in which scientific knowledge, instruments, texts and practitioners moved around the globe in the early modern period. Science was global as well as local in this period, and local meanings and settings interacted with the imperatives of circulation across large distances. Going beyond the now-familiar theme of globalization, we will look at the dynamics of circulation in a range of cases involving different distance scales and different types of practices. Indeed, one of the principal themes is the historical contingency and mutation of scientific notions and practices introduced by movement itself.
Many recent studies in science studies, history of science and colonial history have shown how local conditions and contingencies enter into the production of knowledge, and how place (nation, city, institution, laboratory, ecosystem, colony, ocean, farm) matters. This work has tended to problematize the process by which local knowledge gains status as canonical or universal, taken to be true for all times and places. In this conference, we are interested in pushing considerations of locality to include negotiations and practices that travel (one way or the other) to distant locations, to be put to different uses, and perhaps to be interpreted differently. This means looking at colonial contexts, and intercultural encounters, but also provincial settings and the relations between province and capital. It means examining how knowledge from the metropole was taken or sent to other venues, how it interacted with local people and conditions, and perhaps how it then moved on to other settings. Knowledge moves in all different directions, as do objects: the instruments, specimens, drawings, books, and letters carried knowledge from one place to the other, and from one sort of user to another. One of the main issues for this conference then is to reconsider simple models of metropolitan center and remote colonial periphery by investigating how experiences of travel, encounter and exchange changed both the knowledge at issue and its bearer. We will examine the relation of metropolitan or stay-at-home savants and their distant correspondents, as well as the negotiations of the travelers with the complex of indigenous interlocutors: savants, merchants, assistants, translators, artists, etc.
Conference Papers: Summaries of papers will be posted to the Center’s website by October 8, and will remain accessible until November 5.
Registration deadline— October 12th, 2007
Registration fees—$25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*
*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.
Lunch and other refreshments are provided.
Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.
October 26-27, 2007
Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture
Part 1 – Circles of Sociability
A conference at the Clark Library directed by David Sabean and Malina Stefanovska, Center and Clark Professors, 2007-08
Forthcoming Programs in the Core Program:
Part 2 – Sites of Exteriority – November 30-December 1, 2007
Part 3 – The “Inner Self” – February 22-23, 2008
Part 4 – Spaces of Sacrality – March 14-15, 2008
Part 5 – Family and Work Space – April 25-26, 2008
Subjectivity is embedded in space, which serves to define, shape, and represent it. Every culture has its own articulation between natural and social places or between material and representational ones, as well as its way of constructing identity and selfhood in relation to space. In the early modern period, sites as diverse as the court, the cabinet of curiosities, or the prayer room were crucial for forming and representing individual identities. This year-long series of conferences, dedicated to five such key places, will explore constructions of selfhood and identity, while reflecting on the cultural differences and historical evolution of space, both as material foundation and as representation of human relationships, hierarchies and values.
In part one of this year-long series, we examine Circles of Sociability, be they represented in treatises of court civility, literary quarrels, or epistolary exchanges, or constructed in coffee houses, bourgeois salons and spas, all connect individual identity to practices of hierarchy, exchange, bonding, or conflict.
Registration deadline— October 19th, 2007
Registration fees—$25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*
*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.
Lunch and other refreshments are provided.
Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.
November 3, 2007, 2p.m.
The Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade
presents
Richard B. Sher
"
William Strahan, Thomas Cadell, and the
Big Business of
Scottish Enlightenment Publishing "
The remarkable outburst of enlightened intellectual activity by eighteenth-century Scottish men of letters, commonly known today as the Scottish Enlightenment, has attracted much scholarly attention. In fields as diverse as moral philosophy, medicine, natural philosophy, geology, history, political economy, biography, literary criticism, and fiction, Scottish authors such as David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Lord Kames, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, James Boswell, Henry Mackenzie, William Cullen, and James Hutton became famous names in their own day, and most of them are still respected as seminal figures in the history of ideas.
This talk explores the neglected role of the book trade in the making of the Scottish Enlightenment. It focuses particularly on two interlocking London firms that were founded by the Scottish bookseller Andrew Millar and the Scottish printer William Strahan. In the decade after Millar’s death in 1768, the publishing partnership led by Strahan and Millar’s successor, Thomas Cadell, transformed publishing in Great Britain into a large-scale enterprise, with books by Scottish authors at its core. This talk will explore some of the key features of this transformation, including the payment of large amounts of copy money to popular authors and the forging of publishing alliances with booksellers in Edinburgh. The result of these developments was the establishment of a new era in the history of print culture, in which authors and publishers – both predominantly Scottish – could aspire to high status and enormous wealth through the collaborative publication of learned books.
Richard B. Sher is Distinguished Professor of History at New Jersey Institute of Technology and NJIT Chair of the Federated History Department of Rutgers University, Newark and NJIT. The recipient of fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and other prestigious organizations, he is the author of The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America (2006) and many other publications having to do with book history and the cultural and intellectual history of the Enlightenment, especially in Scotland.
Established by Kenneth Karmiole, a Santa Monica antiquarian bookseller, the annual Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade will focus on the book trade in England and Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Clark’s growing collection of materials relating to the collecting, publishing, and dissemination of books in the early modern period make this series particularly appropriate. Ken Karmiole has run his own rare book business in Los Angeles since 1976, and is a highly respected member of the book trade. The Center and the Clark are deeply grateful to Ken for this gift, and for the expression of faith in our programs and collections that it represents.
Admission is complimentary, but limited space at the Clark makes advance registration necessary.
Registration deadline— October 29th, 2007
Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.
November 16-17, 2007
The “Majesty” of Power in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ritual, Representation, Art
A conference at the Clark Library organized by Matteo Casini, Suffolk University
All throughout the Italian territory in the seventeenth century, kings, princes, republics, and single preeminent groups or persons adopted various forms of representation for displaying the distinctive “majesty” of their power. The political, social, artistic, and cultural activity patronized by princes and aristocracies remained very much alive, notwithstanding the economical crisis. Therefore the representations of majesty could follow multiple paths – ritual, religious, visual, literary, spectacular, etc. With an interdisciplinary and wide geographical approach, the conference aims to understand the several symbolic and concrete facets of power in Baroque Italy.
Please note that Friday’s session will begin at 1:30 P.M.
Registration deadline— November 9th, 2007
Registration fees—$25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*
*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.
Lunch on Saturday and all other refreshments are provided to all registrants.
Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.
November 30 - December 1st, 2007
Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture
Part 2 – Sites of Exteriority
A conference at the Clark Library directed by David Sabean and Malina Stefanovska, Center and Clark Professors, 2007-08
Forthcoming Programs in the Core Program:
Part 3 – The “Inner Self” – February 22-23, 2008
Part 4 – Spaces of Sacrality – March 14-15, 2008
Part 5 – Family and Work Space – April 25-26, 2008
Subjectivity is embedded in space, which serves to define, shape, and represent it. Every culture has its own articulation between natural and social places or between material and representational ones, as well as its way of constructing identity and selfhood in relation to space. In the early modern period, sites as diverse as the court, the cabinet of curiosities, or the prayer room were crucial for forming and representing individual identities. This year-long series of conferences, dedicated to five such key places, will explore constructions of selfhood and identity, while reflecting on the cultural differences and historical evolution of space, both as material foundation and as representation of human relationships, hierarchies and values.
In part 2 of this year-long series, we examine Sites of Exteriority such as gardens, mountains, landscape painting, travels or maps participate in the construction of the self by articulating its relationship to otherness (the sublime, the infinite, imaginary or exotic lands, cosmological representations), as well as a novel way of situating oneself in the world (personal perspective, point of view, exploration, limits).
Registration deadline— November 21st, 2007
Registration fees—$25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*
*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.
Lunch and other refreshments are provided.
Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.
December 6th-8th, 2007
At the Interface of Religion and Cosmopolitanism: Bernard Picart’s Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-1743) and the European Enlightenment
A conference at the Getty Research Institute and the Clark Library organized by Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA, and Wijnand Mijnhardt, Universiteit Utrecht
Co-sponsored by:
UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
The Getty Research Institute
The Netherlands Consulate-General of Los Angeles
Bernard Picart (1673-1733) was one of the most prolific and talented engravers of his age. He was also intellectually curious, and a player in internationally connected social circles - some with a penchant for Deism and Spinozism. Together with Jean Frédéric Bernard, a French language bookseller and publisher of Huguenot stock based in Amsterdam, he published a seven-volume folio work that sought to capture the ritual and ceremonial life of all the known religions of the world: Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-1743). Bernard supplied the 3000 pages of the text while Picart engraved over 250 illustrations. Its first volume offered the world one of the most sympathetic portraits then available of European Jewry. Despite being the work of two French Protestant refugees and done in Amsterdam, the book attempted to be reasonably accurate about Catholic customs and to cast a more favorable light on the so-called "idolatrous peoples" who on the whole appeared in most of the travel literature as barbarous and even without any religion at all. In the life time of Picart the Dutch Republic stood at the heart of the European book trade. Picart and Bernard took full advantage of the opportunities they found in their adopted land, and the Cérémonies in its various translations sold a remarkable 3000 copies. Its translation into Dutch and English removed some of the more radical comments about religion found in the original French text, but those translations, and one in German, meant that Picart's images became the standard means of portraying many of the world's religions until well into the nineteenth century.
Papers: Conference papers presented at the Clark Library will be posted to the Center’s website by November 26, and will remain accessible until December 21.
Registration deadline— November 26th, 2007
Registration fees—
Thursday sessions at the Getty Center: Free of charge.
The Getty Research Institute will host a reception. Lunch will not be served; the Getty Center offers a rich choice of indoor and outdoor cafes, a restaurant, and a picnic area.
Friday and Saturday sessions at the Clark Library:
$25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*
Conference Locations & Parking:
Thursday:
The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive,
off the San Diego Freeway (405), Getty Center Drive exit.
Parking: reserved for registrants at no charge.
Friday – Saturday:
The Clark Library, 2520 Cimarron Street,
in the West Adams district, one block east of Arlington Avenue, two blocks south of the Santa Monica Freeway (10).
Parking: ample free parking on the grounds.
Lunch and other refreshments are provided complimentary to all registrants on Friday and Saturday.
*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.
Lunch and other refreshments are provided.
Please be aware that space at both locations is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.
January 13, 2008 2.00pm
— Chamber Music at the Clark —
Ying Quartet
Timothy Ying, violin
Janey Ying, violin
Philip Ying, viola
David Ying, cello
The Ying siblings began their career as an ensemble in 1992 in the small farming community of Jesup, Iowa (population 2000), as one of the first ensembles involved in the Chamber Music America (then NEA) Rural Residency Program. The Quartet performed for audiences of six to 600 in a residency so successful that it was widely chronicled in the national and international media, including features in The New York Times and on CBS News Sunday Morning.
The Ying Quartet won recognition for its exceptional musical qualities when it was honored with the 1993 Naumburg Chamber Music Award. In the years since, the Yings have established an international reputation for excellence in performance with appearances in virtually every major American city. Its numerous festival appearances include Tanglewood, Aspen, Skaneateles, and San Miguel. International touring has taken the Quartet to Europe, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan, and Taiwan. The Yings' enthusiasm for performing in diverse settings has led to concerts in Carnegie Hall, the White House, hospitals, and juvenile prisons.
The EMI Classics recording of works by Osvaldo Golijov on which the Ying Quartet appears with the St. Lawrence Quartet was nominated for a 2003 Grammy Award. 4 + Four, a Ying/Turtle Island recording, was released in the spring of 2005 on the Telarc label, and received a 2006 Grammy Award in the Best Classical Crossover Category.
As Quartet in Residence at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, the Ying Quartet plans and directs a rigorous, sequential chamber music curriculum that integrates intensive musical instruction with training in creative presentation and communication skills. The Quartet has also taught at Northwestern University and at the Interlochen and Brevard Music Festivals, and since 2001, the members of the Ying Quartet have been the Blodgett Artists in Residence at Harvard University.
— P R O G R A M —
Ludwig van Beethoven
Quartet in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3
Igor Stravinsky
Double Canon: Raoul Dufy In Memoriam
Three Pieces for String Quartet
Concertino
— I N T E R M I S S I O N —
Ludwig van Beethoven
Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132
— R E C E P T I O N —
Reservation lottery submission deadline: December 3rd, 2007
Admission: $25 per person
Reservation by lottery form.
This concert is made possible by the generous support of The Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles.
The series Chamber Music at the Clark is sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
For an explanation of the reservations lottery system, to access printable reservation-by-lottery forms for upcoming concerts, and for direct links to the ensembles' home pages, please see Music Programs, 2007–08.
January 27, 2008 2.00pm
— Chamber Music at the Clark —
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Geoff Nuttall, violin
Scott St. John, violin
Lesley Robertson, viola
Christopher Costanza, cello
Having performed together for more than 18 years now, the St. Lawrence String Quartet has long established itself among the world-class chamber ensembles of its generation. In 1992, they won both the Banff International String Quartet Competition and Young Concert Artists International Auditions, launching them on a performing career that has brought them across North and South America, Europe and Asia.
Having benefited from studying with the Emerson, Tokyo, and Julliard String Quartets, the St. Lawrence are themselves committed educators. Since 1998 they have held the position of Ensemble in Residence at Stanford University where they have worked with students and collaborated extensively with other faculty and departments using music to explore a myriad of topics. Recent collaborations have included the School of Medicine, School of Education, and Center for Jewish Studies. In addition to their appointment at Stanford, the Quartet has served as visiting artists to the University of Toronto since 1995, and this past year helped establish a new visiting chamber music residency at Arizona State University.
The Quartet’s long awaited initial recording, Schumann’s First and Third Quartets, was released in May 1999 to much critical acclaim. The disc received the coveted German critics award, the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, as well as Canada’s annual Juno Award. In October 2001, EMI released their recording of Tchaikovsky’s string quartets. In 2002, their recording of Yiddishbbuk, featuring chamber music of the Argentinean-American composer Osvaldo Golijov, received two Grammy nominations. Their most recent recording of Shostakovich quartets was released in July 2006.
The St. Lawrence String Quartet records exclusively for EMI/ANGEL and is represented by David Rowe Artists.
— P R O G R A M —
Joseph Haydn
Quartet in C Major, Op. 54, No. 2
Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 8
— I N T E R M I S S I O N —
Antonin Dvořák
Cypresses, B. 152
Joseph Haydn
Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1
— R E C E P T I O N —
Reservation lottery submission deadline: December 28th, 2007
Admission: $25 per person
Reservation by lottery form.
This concert is made possible by the generous support of Catherine and Ralph Benkaim.
The series Chamber Music at the Clark is sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
February 9th, 2008
2.00pm
“Poetry Afternoons at the Clark”
presents
English(ed) Verse: Poetry and Translation
A program in the series “Poetry Afternoons at the Clark”
Arranged by Bruce Whiteman and Estelle Gershgoren Novak
Poet, translator, and Judaic scholar Marcia Falk is the author of The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible, which Adrienne Rich called “one of the great classics of the art of translation.” Her other books include several volumes of poetry and translations of modern women poets, including With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman (translated from the Yiddish) and The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of Zelda (translated from the Hebrew). The Book of Blessings, her bilingual re-creation of Jewish liturgy in poetic forms, has been widely acclaimed. Cynthia Ozick wrote that “It is as beautiful as it is innovative.” A former professor of literature and creative writing at SUNY Binghamton, the Claremont Colleges, and Hebrew Union College, Dr. Falk lectures widely on biblical poetry, Jewish women’s literature, and other topics.
Poet and translator David Ferry is Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English, Emeritus at Wellesley College and a Visiting lecturer in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Boston University. He has translated Virgil and Horace, as well as the Epic of Gilgamesh, and his collections of poetry include Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations (1999). He is an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of American Poets and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently working on translations of Horace’s Satires and Virgil’s Aeneid.
Registration deadline— February 4th, 2008
Registration fees— $5 per person
Registration form.
February 22-23, 2008
Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture
Part 3 – The “Inner Self”
A conference at the Clark Library directed by David Sabean and Malina Stefanovska, Center and Clark Professors, 2007-08
Forthcoming Programs in the Core Program:
Part 4 – Spaces of Sacrality – March 14-15, 2008
Part 5 – Family and Work Space – April 25-26, 2008
Subjectivity is embedded in space, which serves to define, shape, and represent it. Every culture has its own articulation between natural and social places or between material and representational ones, as well as its way of constructing identity and selfhood in relation to space. In the early modern period, sites as diverse as the court, the cabinet of curiosities, or the prayer room were crucial for forming and representing individual identities. This year-long series of conferences, dedicated to five such key places, will explore constructions of selfhood and identity, while reflecting on the cultural differences and historical evolution of space, both as material foundation and as representation of human relationships, hierarchies and values.
In part 3 of this year-long series, we examine the “Inner Self” and will question how this specifically early modern notion is crafted through the use of spatial metaphors for representing subjectivity and its relation to otherness (interiority, meditation, concealment, truth or lying), for discussing the mind, the soul, or rhetorical memory, in fiction, medical or religious writings, and philosophy.
Registration deadline— February 15th, 2008
Registration fees—$25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*
*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.
Lunch and other refreshments are provided.
Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.
March 2, 2008 2.00pm
— Chamber Music at the Clark —
Ensō String Quartet
Maureen Nelson, violin
John Marcus, violin
Melissa Reardon, viola
Richard Belcher, cello
Formed in 1999 at Yale University, the Ensō Quartet derives its name from the Japanese Zen painting of the circle which represents many things: perfection and imperfection, the moment of chaos that is creation, the emptiness of the void, the endless circle of life, and the fullness of the spirit.
The Quartet has earned its place in the ensemble world with high profile engagements, residencies, and critically acclaimed recordings, all underscored by impressive competition successes. The ensemble received multiple honors at the 2004 Banff International String Quartet Competition and claimed victories at the 2003 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, Fischoff National Competition and Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition. Their 2005 debut on Naxos Records featured a 2-CD set of Ignaz Pleyel’s six string quartets, Op. 2.
Ensō’s members are already sought after as teachers and chamber music coaches, having served as lecturers at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, artists-in-residence at the 2007 Interlochen Adult Amateur Chamber Music Camp and faculty Quartet-in-Residence at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. The quartet has worked closely with the Rice University Composition Department in the creation and recording of many new works, and they have also been resident with the Houston-based new music organization Musiqa. They have given first performances of many new works, including by composers Karim Al-Zand, Anthony Brandt, and Kurt Stallman.
— P R O G R A M —
Franz Joseph Haydn
Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 20, No. 1
Pierre Jalbert
Icefield Sonnets
— I N T E R M I S S I O N —
Maurice Ravel
Quartet in F Major
— R E C E P T I O N —
Reservation lottery submission deadline: February 4th, 2008
Admission: $25 per person
Reservation by lottery form.
This concert is made possible by the generous support of Edmund D. Edelman Foundation for Music and the Performing Arts.
The series Chamber Music at the Clark is sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
For an explanation of the reservations lottery system, to access printable reservation-by-lottery forms for upcoming concerts, and for direct links to the ensembles' home pages, please see Music Programs, 2007–08.
March 9, 2008 2.00pm
— Chamber Music at the Clark —
Parisii Quartet with Jérôme Corréas and Emmanuel Strosser
Arnaud Vallin, violin
Jean-Michel Berrette, violin
Dominique Lobet, viola
Jean-Philippe Martignoni, cello
with
Jérôme Corréas, baritone
and
Emmanuel Strosser, piano
Formed in l984 by four prize-winning graduates of the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris, the Parisii Quartet won early acclaim with triumphs at major international competitions including Banff in 1986 and Munich in 1987. The Quartet has since toured regularly throughout Europe. In 1995 they made an extraordinarily successful 17-concert debut tour of the United States, and have since appeared in Los Angeles, San Diego, Toronto, Miami, Washington, and New York.
Noted for its performances of distinctive and unusual repertoire of the l8th, l9th and 20th centuries, the Parisii has distinguished itself with award-winning recordings of intriguing works by such French composers as Menu and Tailleferre, as well as the complete works for string quartet by Anton Webern. In 2003 Decca released its recordings of the complete works for string quartet by William Sheller.
Joining the Parisii Quartet for this concert are two special guests:
Jérôme Corréas has established a reputation as one of the finest French bass-baritones, with wide-ranging musical abilities and interests. He has had major roles in operas of the 18th through 20th centuries including Handel’s Admetto with the Sydney and Montpellier Operas, Dallapiccola’s Volo di Notte in Paris, and Verdi’s La Traviata in Toulouse.
Pianist Emmanuel Strosser began his musical studies with Hélène Boschi in Strasbourg, France at age six. He later enrolled in the Paris Conservatoire and studied the piano with Jean-Claude Pennetier and chamber music with Christian Ivaldi. He appears regularly as a soloist in recitals and with many French and Spanish orchestras.
— P R O G R A M —
Germaine Tailleferre
String Quartet
Maurice Ravel
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Reynaldo Hahn
Piano Quintet in F-sharp Minor
— I N T E R M I S S I O N —
Gabriel Fauré
La Bonne Chanson for Baritone, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 61
— R E C E P T I O N —
Reservation lottery submission deadline: February 11th, 2008
Admission: $25 per person
Reservation by lottery form.
This concert is made possible by the generous support of Joyce Perry.
The series Chamber Music at the Clark is sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
For an explanation of the reservations lottery system, to access printable reservation-by-lottery forms for upcoming concerts, and for direct links to the ensembles' home pages, please see Music Programs, 2007–08.
March 14-15, 2008
Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture
Part 4 – Spaces of Sacrality
A conference at the Clark Library directed by David Sabean and Malina Stefanovska, Center and Clark Professors, 2007-08
Forthcoming Programs in the Core Program:
Part 5 – Family and Work Space – April 25-26, 2008
Subjectivity is embedded in space, which serves to define, shape, and represent it. Every culture has its own articulation between natural and social places or between material and representational ones, as well as its way of constructing identity and selfhood in relation to space. In the early modern period, sites as diverse as the court, the cabinet of curiosities, or the prayer room were crucial for forming and representing individual identities. This year-long series of conferences, dedicated to five such key places, will explore constructions of selfhood and identity, while reflecting on the cultural differences and historical evolution of space, both as material foundation and as representation of human relationships, hierarchies and values.
In part 4 of this year-long series, we examine the “spaces of sacrality” and will explore the interrelatedness between the spatial configurations of religious sites (places of cult, convents, pilgrimage routes, sacralized Absolutist or Republican political space) and conceptions of authority, the sacred and the self (mystical experience, meditation practices, creation of a “secular” sacredness).
Registration deadline— March 7th, 2008
Registration fees—$25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*
*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.
Lunch and other refreshments are provided.
Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.
March 16, 2008 2.00pm
— Clark Recital Series —
Steve Gibbs
Seven-String Classical Guitar
Born in Chicago in 1959 and settled in Belgium since 1994, Steve Gibbs is a specialist of the seven-string classical guitar. His work ranges across solo recitals, analysis and transcription, composition, improvisation and multidisciplinary creation. He has performed in concerts, festivals, radio and television in Europe, Asia and the United States, including such venues as Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Mr. Gibbs received his professional training as a guitarist under Stuart Fox at California Institute of the Arts, with Brian Whitehouse of the Birmingham Conservatory, and finally with Gordon Crosskey at the Royal Northern College of Music Manchester, where he also performed in John Williams’ master classes. He also studied Carnatic classical music in India, where he lived from 1972-77, and in 1990 made a research visit to Korea, studying shamanist percussion at the National Institute for Performing Arts in Seoul and Buddhist chant in a Korean Zen monastery.
His ritual theater collaboration Le pont de pierres et la peau d’images, with director Barbara Rufin, received the Best Discovery prize for Dance and Theatre 2006 from the Communauté Française of Belgium. Recent creations include the Berlin premiere of A Story of Murder 2nd Version with Israeli choreographer Loulou Omer, integrating onstage performance of Bach solo lute works into the choreographic action.
— P R O G R A M —
Luis de Narváez
Guardame las vacas
Otra parte
Conde claros
Baxa de contrapunto
Manuel Ponce
Thème varié et Finale
Luis de Narváez
La bella mal maridada
El rey ramiro
El rey moro
Con que la lavare
— I N T E R M I S S I O N —
Ernst Krenek
Suite 1957
Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite BWV 997
— R E C E P T I O N —
Reservation lottery submission deadline: February 19th, 2008
Admission: $25 per person
Reservation by lottery form.
The Clark Recital Series is sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
For an explanation of the reservations lottery system, to access printable reservation-by-lottery forms for upcoming concerts, and for direct links to the ensembles' home pages, please see Music Programs, 2007–08.
April 6, 2008 2.00pm
— Chamber Music at the Clark —
Borealis String Quartet
Patricia Shih, violin
Yuel Yawney, violin
Nikita Pogrebnoy, viola
Shih-Lin Chen, cello
Formed at the University of British Columbia in the fall of 2000, the Borealis String Quartet established a stellar reputation so quickly that its debut concert, at the Chan Centre in Vancouver, was attended by more than a thousand people. Building quickly on that initial success, in 2003-2004 the Borealis played more than 70 concerts, traveling coast to coast on an extensive national tour supported by the Canada Council. Highlights included performances of the Schubert Quintet with Sadao Harada, founding cellist of the Tokyo String Quartet, and the Mendelssohn Octet with the St. Lawrence String Quartet. The Borealis made its New York City debut for Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music in 2003. In 2004-2005, the Quartet returned to New York to perform for Schneider Concerts, traveled to London for its British debut, and made its first appearance for Music Toronto.
Already a favorite at Canadian festivals, the Quartet’s summer venues have included the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, the Festival of the Sound in Ontario, the Indian River Festival on Prince Edward Island, and the Baies des Chaleurs Festival in New Brunswick. In 2005, the Borealis made its first U.S. festival appearance at the Mendocino Music Festival in California. The 2006-2007 season saw the Quartet’s first nationwide touring inside the U.S., including performances in such acclaimed series as the National Academy of Sciences and the Tuscon Friends of Music.
— P R O G R A M —
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95
Ottorino Respighi
“Doric” Quartet
— I N T E R M I S S I O N —
Edvard Grieg
String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 27
— R E C E P T I O N —
Reservation lottery submission deadline: March 10th, 2008
Admission: $25 per person
Reservation by lottery form.
This concert is made possible by the generous support of donors who wish to remain anonymous.
The series Chamber Music at the Clark is sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
For an explanation of the reservations lottery system, to access printable reservation-by-lottery forms for upcoming concerts, and for direct links to the ensembles' home pages, please see Music Programs, 2007–08.
April 13, 2008 2.00pm
— Chamber Music at the Clark —
American String Quartet
Peter Winograd, violin
Laurie Carney, violin
Daniel Avsholomov, viola
Wolfram Koessel, cello
Formed in 1974, while still students at the Juilliard School, the American String Quartet was launched to critical prominence by winning both the Coleman Competition and the Naumburg Award that same year. Now internationally recognized as one of the world's finest quartets, the American String Quartet recently celebrated its 30th anniversary during the 2005-2006 season. Highlighting the anniversary was the Quartet’s debut in a new series of recordings on the Arabesque label, including quartets of celebrated composer Richard Danielpour, and the launch of the Complete Brahms String Chamber Music featuring a stellar list of collaborative artists.
In three decades of touring, the American has performed in all fifty states and appeared in virtually every important concert hall throughout the world. Their presentations of the complete quartets of Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Bartók, and Mozart have won widespread critical acclaim. The 1998 MusicMasters Complete Mozart String Quartets, performed on a matched set of Stradivarius instruments, are widely considered to have set the standard for this repertoire.
Their extensive discography can be heard on the Albany, CRI, MusicMasters, Musical Heritage Society, Nonesuch and RCA labels. The Quartet is popular with national radio audiences and has been featured on Minnesota Public Radio’s St. Paul Sunday Morning, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and live broadcasts on WFMT.
— P R O G R A M —
Franz Joseph Haydn
Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 76, No. 6
Alban Berg
String Quartet, Op. 3
— I N T E R M I S S I O N —
Franz Schubert
String Quartet in G Major, D. 887
— R E C E P T I O N —
Reservation lottery submission deadline: March 17th, 2008
Admission: $25 per person
Reservation by lottery form.
This concert is made possible by the generous support of the Ahmanson Foundation.
The series Chamber Music at the Clark is sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
For an explanation of the reservations lottery system, to access printable reservation-by-lottery forms for upcoming concerts, and for direct links to the ensembles' home pages, please see Music Programs, 2007–08.
April 25-26, 2008
Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture
Part 5 – Family and Work Space
A conference at the Clark Library directed by David Sabean and Malina Stefanovska, Center and Clark Professors, 2007-08
Subjectivity is embedded in space, which serves to define, shape, and represent it. Every culture has its own articulation between natural and social places or between material and representational ones, as well as its way of constructing identity and selfhood in relation to space. In the early modern period, sites as diverse as the court, the cabinet of curiosities, or the prayer room were crucial for forming and representing individual identities. This year-long series of conferences, dedicated to five such key places, will explore constructions of selfhood and identity, while reflecting on the cultural differences and historical evolution of space, both as material foundation and as representation of human relationships, hierarchies and values.
In part 5 of this year-long series, we seek to understand the influence on individual identities, of new family and kinship structures, or of emerging work and leisure practices represented in the configuration of the house (reading spaces, craftsman’s workshop, artist’s studio, cabinets of curiosities, material objects of culture, relation of space to memory and work, practices of hospitality, etc.).
Registration deadline— April 18th, 2008
Registration fees—$25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*
*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.
Lunch and other refreshments are provided.
Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.
May 16-17, 2008
“Age of Revolutions” or “World Crisis”? Global Causation,
Connection, and Comparison, c. 1760-1840
A conference at the Clark Library organized by David Armitage, Harvard University, and Peter Reill, UCLA
Co-sponsored by SCAS-Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala
European and American historians have long seen the decades around 1800 as an “Age of Revolutions”: American, French, Caribbean, Latin American, and European. Global historians have more recently seen this same period as an era of “World Crisis” or globally “Convergent Revolutions,” from the Americas to East Asia. In the words of one leading proponent of this new characterization, “The crisis of the old order had Asian, African, and American, as well as European origins. Its consequences were also global.” This conference will bring together scholars of Europe, the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Asia (South, East and South-East) to tackle the question: Was Europe the catalyst of the global crisis of this era, or was it simply one site among many in which political reform, state formation, and imperial expansion explosively interacted with each other across the globe?
Registration deadline— May 9th, 2008
Registration fees—$25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*
*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.
Lunch and other refreshments are provided.
Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.
May 18, 2008 2.00pm
— Chamber Music at the Clark —
The Gryphon Trio
Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin
Roman Borys, cello
Jamie Parker, piano
Celebrating their 15th anniversary this year, the Gryphon Trio continues to enchant audiences everywhere they play. While regularly touring throughout Canada and the United States, they have also performed in Mexico, Germany, France, Belgium, Russia, Poland, Greece, and Egypt. Their celebrated recordings include works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Dvořák, Lalo, and Shostakovich. Strongly committed to expanding the piano trio repertoire, the trio has commissioned and premiered over 40 works. Their 2004 recording, Canadian Premieres, featured the work of leading Canadian composers and received the prestigious Juno Award. The trio has recorded nine CDs, all for the Analekta label, including Haydn: Four Piano Trios, Mozart: Complete Piano Trios, and their most recent, Schubert: Complete Piano Trios.
As one of Canada’s preeminent ensembles, the Gryphon Trio has always been actively involved in teaching and cultivating future generations of both classical musicians and audiences. The trio is the ensemble in residence at Music Toronto, and all three members teach at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music.
The trio’s namesake, the gryphon, is a mythical creature that is half lion and half eagle. Known as a guardian of treasures, the gryphon is representative of the connection between psychic energy and cosmic force.
— P R O G R A M —
Franz Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio in C Major, Hob. XV:27
Christos Hatzis
Odd World
Old Photographs
— I N T E R M I S S I O N —
Felix Mendelssohn
Trio in C Minor, Op. 66
— R E C E P T I O N —
Reservation lottery submission deadline: April 21st, 2008
Admission: $25 per person
Reservation by lottery form.
This concert is made possible by the generous support of the Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles.
The series Chamber Music at the Clark is sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
For an explanation of the reservations lottery system, to access printable reservation-by-lottery forms for upcoming concerts, and for direct links to the ensembles' home pages, please see Music Programs, 2007–08.
Unless otherwise noted,
all academic and public programs will be held
at the Clark Library, 2520 Cimarron Street,
in the West Adams district of Los Angeles.
Printed publicity and program registration forms
will be mailed to subscribers at the beginning of fall, winter, and spring terms.
Inquiries should be addressed to the
Center office at 310 Royce Hall, UCLA
Phone: 310-206-8552; E-mail: c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu
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